The right combo of toppings and condiments turns your boring ham sandwich or whatever into a veritable treat, and for cheap too

Currently enjoying adding red onion, cherry tomatoes and tiny little pickles

Bonus question:

When you eat a sandwich, do you nibble away the crust first

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    pained

    :breadpill:
    :che-poggers:

    edit: this is a joke about pain being french for bread
    i just realised how this looks lmao

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      When I lived in Japan - I was surprised to learn the word for bread is "pan" - パン. It must have come to Japan via a European language other than English. Pan or panis is Latin for bread.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah they got it from the Portuguese or Spanish. Japan has an interesting culinary history. Katsudon is basically their version of Schnitzel. They also picked beer from the Dutch tradition and whiskey from the Scots, solid points of origin.

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          Katsudon is great.

          To anybody reading this - if you visit Japan - have some. You can even have it at whatever nearby local fast food chain restaurant is around. The quality of chain restaurant food is very good.

          Katsudon

          Katsudon (Japanese: カツ丼) is a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet, egg, vegetables, and condiments.

          The dish takes its name from the Japanese words tonkatsu (for pork cutlet) and donburi (for rice bowl dish).

          It has become a modern tradition for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a homophone of the verb katsu (勝つ), meaning "to win" or "to be victorious". It is also a trope in Japanese police films: that suspects will speak the truth with tears when they have eaten katsudon and are asked, "Did you ever think about how your mother feels about this?" Even nowadays, the gag of "We must eat katsudon while interrogating" is popular in Japanese films. However, as of 2019, police will never actually feed suspects during interrogation.

          History

          Regarding the origin of katsudon, there is an article that "an article was published in the local newspaper 'Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun' dated September 1995 that katsudon was served at the long-established "Okumura Honten" near Kofu in the late 9s of the Meiji era. It means that at least in the late 30s of Meiji, katsudon existed in Kofu. For this reason, the Kofu theory is considered the oldest in the information confirmed at this time.

          Preparation

          The tonkatsu for the katsudon dish is prepared by dipping the cutlet in flour, followed by egg, then dipping in panko breadcrumbs, and deep-frying. Next, into a boiling broth of dashi, soy sauce and onions, the sliced tonkatsu and a beaten egg is cooked.

          • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            Damn now I'm hungry as hell for some Katsudon and the closest Japanese restaurant doesn't serve it. But! They do make a really good Tonkatsu so it scratches the itch

            Like I live in bumfuck nowhere but the local city has a solid Japanese restaurant and a Korean one that makes really good kimchee so if I got some extra cash it's a nice way to treat myself, I usually go once a month to deposit my paycheck at the bank so it's a "why not?"

              • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                Hell yeah. It would probably be my last meal if I was facing the electric chair. With a little Unagi on the side.

                • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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                  2 years ago

                  my last meal if I was facing the electric chair.

                  I'd ask for a special serving of unadon that had two extra slices of eel. Plus tonkatsu or maybe katsudon. I'd be bloated but it wouldn't exactly matter.